Abstract
Municipal end-of-life care for older home-dwelling patients with cancer is a complex matter requiring healthcare professionals (HCPs) to recognize gender differences in a social, historical and organizational context. A qualitative approach was chosen to explore and identify HCPs value-based principles and organizational conditions promoting dignity-preserving care practice for these women. HCPs recognized the importance of sheltering the women’s identity, their sense of being home and acknowledged their personal preferences as value-based principles, whereas creating a flexible culture of care, establishing a functional professional collaboration and developing individualized plans of care, were crucial organizational conditions influencing the practice of dignity-preserving care.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Journal of Women and Aging |
Vol/bind | 34 |
Udgave nummer | 5 |
Sider (fra-til) | 567-581 |
Antal sider | 15 |
ISSN | 0895-2841 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2022 |
Emneord
- Women's health
- end-of-life
- care
- dignity